The Lightning has dual BIOS. One that is voltage locked and one that is made for massive OCing with LN2 and such. The LN2 BIOS is not very stable folding, it OCs like nobodies bussiness and can pass benchmark after benchmark but can not fold 8018s. 804x/805x it can do but not the 8018 and I never got to put it on an 8057. I can OC it to almost 1400MHz on air with temps in the mid 70s with the LN2 BIOS. I have not played with the non LN2 much. The 1175 is stock clock. I am sure it will do 1300 with no problem I just have not tested it. You would think it would smash the Fermi cards but...

Mako's 580 at 880MHz and 60c gets 234k on the 8057s. Not bad but it needs to be better. I know it can do lots more and be stable but I need to get the cooling lined out first. It is also an MSI Lightning with a beefed up vrm section.

Mako's 580 at 880MHz and 60c gets 234k on the 8057s. Not bad but it needs to be better. I know it can do lots more and be stable but I need to get the cooling lined out first. It is also an MSI Lightning with a beefed up vrm section.

The beefed up VRMs are nice to have, but I've found that for stable folding at high overclocks, even with a reference card, you run into the need for more cold well before you run out of the ability supply more voltage.

Once I have a backup GTX580 in hand, I'm going to delid the GPU on the one I'm using for the TC, so I can mount the water block in direct contact with the GPU die.
I'm so close to 1 GHz with it that I can taste it, but I need be able to pull heat out of it more efficiently to get there.
At 985 MHz, it folds 8018s and 8057s all day, but at 990 MHz, it sometimes fails, regardless of the voltage applied.